Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 168
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
A System of Operative Surgery . . . Second Edition. 20 etched plates after Bell. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/4 morocco; some foxing variously affecting plates, old inscription and institutional stamp on titles, dark stain in upper inner corners throughout second volume. London, 1814

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first edition of an expanded account of the discovery of the non-medullated nerve-fibers ("fibers of Remak") he had first described in a paper 2 years earlier. Garrison-Morton 1262.